Sunday, February 18, 2018

Some of us never believed that the hue and cry over “facts”
was anything but psy-ops… a fraudulent attempt to marry the liberal progressive
idealistic cause to empirical reality. Since that cause has never really had anything to
do with reality—it prefers appearances—it was always going to be a tough sell.

For now, for those who care about facts, here are a couple,
from different sources. The first from The Daily Caller’s Amber Athey compares Russian
election meddling with the Clinton communications machine.

According
to reports, the monthly Russian budget for the operation to meddle in the
election was $1.2 million. As Peter Hamby pointed out on Twitter, Clinton and
supporting PAC Priorities USA spent approximately $800 million in 2016.

That
means Clinton and her PAC spent about $66 million a month in 2016, a whopping
53 times more money than Russia’s $1.25 million monthly budget.

And this does not even count the massive media assault
against Trump and the massive propaganda effort in favor of Clinton.

And then there is Facebook. The company vice president of
advertising, Robert Goldman tweeted a salient fact: namely, that most Russian
spending on Facebook advertising happened after the election. Duh? Not a minor
detail, don’t you think? And yet, as Goldman suggests, Facebook has always reported this. The media has consistently ignored it.

Notably,
Goldman points out that the majority of advertising purchased by
Russians on Facebook occurred after the
election - and
was designed to "sow discord and divide Americans", something which
Americans have been quite adept at doing on their own ever since the Fed
decided to unleash a record class, wealth, income divide by keeping capital
markets artificially afloat at any cost.

Here are the texts of some of the tweets:

The
majority of the Russian ad spend happened AFTER the election. We shared that
fact, but very few outlets have covered it because it doesn’t align with the
main media narrative of Tump and the election.

The
main goal of the Russian propaganda and misinformation effort is to divide
America by using our institutions, like free speech and social media, against
us. It has stoked fear and hatred amongst Americans. It is working incredibly
well. We are quite divided as a nation.